A potentially dangerous situation

[TheSHAD0W]

A steel picket fence is probably the only thing that will work long-term to solve the problem. Googling "security fence" also brought up this little item which might also work. Both will be expensive but less so than constantly repairing chain link.

[JustaCashier]

I've never had to deal with anything like this myself, but the recurring thing I seem to hear in the situations of illegal activity going on in neighborhoods, and how the neighbors successfully eradicate the problem, is pressure.

Now, in these incidents, I don't know whether the undesirables threatened the neighbors or not and how aggressive they were , and personally I'd probably be scared shitless if they started to threaten me, but what the neighbors did, was make sure these guys knew that the neighbors were watching them. Taking pictures, documenting the activiities, descriptions of people and cars, recording license numbers. If those actions alone don't get these slimeballs to move on, at least you'll have something for the police to work with, and to take to court should it get that far and you are subpoenaed to testify.

Other than the reasons that you mention, that you can't move away at this time, I don't know how attached you are to the area you live in, but, if this crap came to my neighborhood, I feel there's no damn way I should be forced to move, just because these assholes decided to move in, and make my neighborhood unsafe.

Anyway, good luck on this. And, Broward County, eh? Be sure to at all of us, should these idiots get busted, and COPS is there taping, and you're in the background!

Mike

[NightWatch]

I work for a police department. Justacashier is right on the money about tracking these guys. Write down EVERYTHING, physical descriptions, car descriptions and license plates. If you can get close enough to the car to look at the VIN, even if you can't clearly see it, it'll make em squirm. Just don't go collecting VINs alone, just in case. Meet the narcotics detectives and make a point to talk to them face to face, they're people too and if you build a rapport with them, they'll care more about your problem. Ask them to go to meetings with your neighborhood watch group and speak. The Harriet Carter magazine carries really inexpensive fake security cameras. Stick em all over near the fence, if the bastards damage the "camera", no loss, but seeing something that looks like a security camera is going to make any tweakers panicky.